Patrick Leahy actually said...

"I commend Senator Kennedy for his leadership in this effort over the years."

"I would just say, therefore, that when we now carve out a different class of people that may also deserve that kind of protection, we need, and owe it to the American people and to our legal system, t..."

"We did pass the Federal hate crime legislation in 1968 in the wake of the assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King."

"If the States had the capacity to deal with this issue, that's the preferred route."